Bureaucracy at work: Has Canada lost track of 50,000 Syrian refugees?

Remember right after President Donald Trump was inaugurated and mobs of protesters packed JFK International in New York and other airports to protest the new administration’s so-called “Muslim ban?” Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau was quick to welcome any and all refugees to head just a little bit further north.

More refugees than Trudeau likely imagined took him up on the offer. In yesterday’s Vancouver Sun, however, there was an interesting piece claiming that Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada, formerly just the Immigration Department, hadn’t followed up in two years with a report on some 50,000 Syrian refugees in the country.

… after more than two weeks of inquiries by Postmedia, a media relations officer acknowledged the department has not produced any report in almost two years on the about 50,000 Syrian refugees now in Canada.

Canada’s auditor general is among the unamused. The Liberals had a plan to monitor whether the mostly Arabic-speaking refugees were learning English or French, working, receiving social assistance and going to school, but the government has failed to follow through, said auditor general Michael Ferguson. It is Ottawa’s responsibility, he said, to make sure Syrians refugees “integrate into Canadian society.”

“Integrate into Canadian society?” That sounds vaguely racist to us. What happened to celebrating diversity?

A "media relations officer acknowledged the (immigration) department has not produced any report in almost two years on the about 50,000 Syrian refugees now in Canada." We have no idea if they learned English, got a job or collect welfare. Apparently, Trudeau doesn't want to know https://t.co/sMece7hIxf

He doesnt want anyone to know. There are so many screwed up decision that he has made and swept under the rug!!! Perhaps he is hoping to give these people voting right for the next election! Canada needs a strong fair leader! Step down JT you are in over your head!!!!

It should be a program to evaluate how many and what type of refugees is Canada able to afford, it should be compared to other countries not to suffer the same consequences of violence and lack of integration .

Made even more galling by the fact that the majority of refugee camps in and around Syria are emptying out because everyone is going home because the war is more or less finished. There was NEVER any good reason for these folks to be parachuted into Canada.

World should make rules that all refugees should be sent back in a timely fashion. Otherwise in future when actual need arises, no country would step forward to take in refugees. If these artificial refugees are not sent back, forget compassion from any country in world in future

We don’t know how that would go over; President Trump took a lot of heat for extending only until 2019 a “temporary” residency program launched in 2010 for around 60,000 Haitian refugees displaced by an earthquake.

Wasn’t Canada where all the Hollywood liberals were going to move if Trump won? That number was easy enough to track.